Splicing-tool for barbed wire ahd other wires



APPLICATION FILED MAY I3. 1919.

' Patented 001;. 7,1919. L

.IN V EN TOR.

' @fami/'I CHARLES HETTINGER, OF ANITA, IOWA.

SPLICING-TOOL FOR BARBED WIIRIE AN D OTHER WIRES. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1919.

Application flied may 13, 191e. serial No. 296,855.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HETTINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anita, in the county of Cass and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Splicing-Tools for Barbed Wire and -other Wires, of which the following is aspecication.

This invention relates to improvements in splicin .tools for barbed wires,.or an other kind of wires, used for fences and t e like.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and cheap splicing tool, effective in its operation, and easily handled.

The invention consists in the improved splicing tool, and in the combination and arrangements of the various .parts thereof, su-bstantially as will be hereinafter more fully described andnally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate correspond- 'ing parts:

lFigure 1, is a perspective view of my improved splicing tool, and

- Fig. 2, a similar view, showing the wires yto be spliced, in proper position, in and on the tool. Y Y

Fig. 3 is a partial cross-section of handle of tool and wires therein, showing wires in same position as in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a partial cross-section of handle of tool and wires therein, showing wires as in position in Fig. 2.

In the drawings, a is a hollow handle;

preferably a piece of pipe, having its outer portion split to form a fork with prongs b and b1, the outer ends of which are connected by a cross bar c, carrying .at its cen.

tral portion, and at right angles thereto,

a bar d, having in its end sections, hook shaped openings e and Parallel with the cross bar c, and in about the middle of the fork prongs b, b1, is rev-l olubly mounted a shaft m, provided wlth a crank handle and lin its central portion with a hole o.

. On the opposite en-d of the shaft m and preferably on the outsidel of the fork portion. b, of the handle a, is mounted a ratchet wheel p, controlled by a pawl g.

On the inner or free ends of the handle a, are arranged notches r, r1, and s, respectively.

l One end of the wire T is provided at its broken portion with a loop t1, and is paed through hook or notch f to and below the end of the handle a, and is hooked into notches 7' and r1.

The end u of the other wire is passed through the hollowhandle a, and into and through the hole 0 in shaft m, and is tightened yor coiled around the shaft by turning crank handle n. l

To make the desired splice, the wire t is now unhooked from notch f in bar d, and the entire tool is turned backward until notch e of bar d engages the wire u, the latter resting in notch s.

The pawl g is then released from the ratchet p, and the shaft m turned vbackward by means of the crank n. The wire t is then out rat the hole o in shaftm, and is then wrapped around they other wire u as will be manifest.

. Having thus described luy-invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A splicing tool, comprising a hollow handle having at one end a fork and at the' otherend'notches, a cross bar connecting the vend portions of the fork. a bar mounted on the central portidn of the cross bar and-at right angles thereto, and proangles thereto another bar, the opposite ends of which latter are hook shaped. a shaft revolubly mounted in the fork and at right angles to the handle and provided with a central hole or opening and a pawl and ratchet arrangement on the fork and shaft respectively, all said parts substantially as Vfor the purposes described.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES HETTINGER. Witnesses:

' W. R. SPENCE, J. W. NICHOLS. 

